New Fronts in the War on Misinformation National Academies host three events to explore ways to expand the reach of accurate science and health information online By Sara Frueh | March 2, 2020 The countless false claims that have spread alongside the novel coronavirus — inaccurate advice about how to […]
Day: March 8, 2020
That Classic Image Everyone Uses to Illustrate Evolution Is Actually Wrong
Evolution explains how all living beings, including us, came to be. It would be easy to assume evolution works by continuously adding features to organisms, constantly increasing their complexity. Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Some dinosaurs evolved wings and began to fly. Others evolved wombs […]
Unborn Baby Sharks Will Swim Between Uteruses to Devour Their Brethren
As macabre as it seems, it’s not exactly a secret that in some species of shark the unborn dine on their siblings while still developing in the womb. But it turns out we don’t know the half of it. A novel kind of ultrasound device has provided biologists with a […]
The arrival of the laptop in the classroom and parental mediation
Postcard dating from 1910 featuring the utopian vision of schools in the year 2000. Credit: Villemard, 1910 – Chromolithography Paris, BNF, Postcards A study by Carme Bach, a lecturer with the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at UPF, and Cristina Aliagas, a lecturer with the Faculty of Education at […]
An Inclusive Vision of Math
I spent last weekend the way I spend a lot of weekends: singing Protestant hymns at the top of my lungs with friends from around the country. Sacred Harp singing is an a cappella hymn tradition that has a long history in New England and the rural south and is […]